LAGOS Dashboard

Live Academic Global Observational Status
as of just now
Home News Bluesky Map Kiosk ⚙ Admin
← Home | Weather

Why are water companies imposing a hosepipe ban?

12
Articles
12
Unique Sources
16.0
Importance
12.0
Diversity
T1
Top Tier
Snapshot born 20h ago · present at 9 data intervals (20h ago → 18h ago)

Story History

The story across its frozen snapshot generations (each shares ≥ half of this snapshot's articles). ─ articles · ─ sources · squares = generation births, sized by importance (outlined = open that snapshot; filled = this one) · baseline band = intervals the story was live · ticks below = each generation's tone.
13 0 Jul 24 14:00 UTC — 9 articles · 9 sources · importance 9.0 · tone -2.0 · shares 6 with viewedtone -2.0Jul 24 14:30 UTC — 10 articles · 10 sources · importance 10.0 · tone -1.9 · shares 7 with viewedtone -1.9Jul 24 15:00 UTC — 11 articles · 11 sources · importance 11.0 · tone -1.9 · shares 8 with viewedtone -1.9Jul 24 17:00 UTC — 13 articles · 13 sources · importance 13.0 · tone -2.1 · shares 10 with viewedtone -2.1Jul 25 05:30 UTC — 13 articles · 13 sources · importance 13.0 · tone -2.3 · shares 11 with viewedtone -2.3Jul 25 07:45 UTC — 11 articles · 11 sources · importance 11.0 · tone -2.4 · shares 11 with viewedtone -2.4Jul 25 08:30 UTC — 12 articles · 12 sources · importance 16.0 · tone -2.1 (viewing)tone -2.1Jul 25 10:45 UTC — 8 articles · 8 sources · importance 12.0 · tone -2.3 · shares 8 with viewedtone -2.3 Jul 24 14:00 Jul 26 05:45 UTC
Born Articles Sources Importance Shared with this snapshot
18h ago 8 8 12.0 8
21h ago 11 11 11.0 11
23h ago 13 13 13.0 11
1d ago 13 13 13.0 10
1d ago 11 11 11.0 8
1d ago 10 10 10.0 7
1d ago 9 9 9.0 6

Articles in Story

Tier Title Category Source Feeling SentimentSentiment Score (-5 to +5)
LLM-assessed emotional tone of coverage.

-5 = extremely negative/alarming
0 = neutral/factual
+5 = extremely positive/hopeful

The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T1 Why are water companies imposing a hosepipe ban? weather_drought bbc.co.uk parched, restricted, cautious
+0.8
sadness
T3 Hosepipe ban across south east England starts today weather_drought bucksfreepress.co.uk inconvenienced, constrained, frustrated
-1.7
anger
T3 Hosepipe ban across south east England starts today weather_drought sloughobserver.co.uk restricted, dry, inconvenient
-1.7
sadness
T3 Hosepipe ban across south east England starts today weather_drought readingchronicle.co.uk constrained, responsible, inconvenienced
-1.7
anticipation
T3 Hosepipe ban across south east England starts today weather_drought bracknellnews.co.uk restrictive, precautionary, dry
-1.7
anticipation
T3 Hosepipe ban more likely for Worcestershire with drought weather_drought eveshamjournal.co.uk dry, restricted, anxious
-2.7
anticipation
T3 Hosepipe ban more likely for Worcestershire with drought weather_drought worcesternews.co.uk restricted, waterless, concerned
-2.7
anticipation
T3 Anglian Water hosepipe ban in Norfolk to stay in place weather_drought eveningnews24.co.uk dry, constrained, frustrated
-0.3
anger
T3 Hosepipe ban more likely for Worcestershire with drought weather_drought ludlowadvertiser.co.uk parched, restricted, anxious
-2.7
sadness
T3 Hosepipe ban more likely for Worcestershire with drought weather_drought malverngazette.co.uk parched, drying, worrying
-2.7
fear
T3 Hosepipe ban more likely for Worcestershire with drought weather_drought cotswoldjournal.co.uk restrictive, parched, worrying
-2.7
sadness
T3 Burst water pipe affects Abingdon homes during hosepipe ban weather_impact heraldseries.co.uk frustrated, inconvenienced, annoyed
-5.5
anger